On Sunday, Jason Zucker celebrated his 30th birthday. On Tuesday, he finally started to break out of a funk.
Zucker hadn’t scored a goal in his previous 12 games before coming back to the lineup last night and netting two goals against the Vegas Golden Knights. It was Zucker’s first game since December 19th, with the team pulling the plug on him playing through a nagging injury for much of December, which couldn’t have helped his effort to score goals.
Zucker’s Penguin career has been a really fascinating case study. This is the third season he has played in Pittsburgh since coming over in 2020 trade, but due to injury/league stoppages, his Pittsburgh career totals just 84 games, or barely more than one full season.